Community Pharmacy Practice

Community Pharmacy

Definition Community Pharmacy is

defined as a place where
all prescription and non
prescription items are
stocked and sold to the
public directly by a
qualified registered
pharmacist or under the
supervision of a pharmacist
and other patient centered
professional services are
offered
Community Pharmacist

• Community pharmacist is a
health care professional
having a registrable
qualification and registered
with respective state
pharmacy council and
offering professional
services in the pharmacy for
better health of the society.
 Professional Services
• Processing of Prescriptions
• Care of patients or clinical pharmacy
• Monitoring of drug utilization
• Extemporaneous preparation
• Responding to minor ailments
• Drug information
• Health promotion services
• Domiciliary services
Processing of Prescription
• Verifying the legality,
safety, and
appropriateness of the
prescription
• Checking the patient
medication record before
dispensing
• Ensures the quantity
dispensed against the
prescription
• Dispensing of the
medications
• briefing the
patients about
medications
dispensed
 Care of Patients or
Provision of clinical pharmacy services
• Pharmaceutical Care
Responsible provision of drug therapy with an
intension to achieve the desired therapeutic
outcomes
• Assess potential drug
related problems
• Providing
medications in
suitable devices
• Education to patient
regarding drugs and
disease
 Skills required

• Knowledge regarding medications

• Good communication skills
• Maintaining Patient Medication Records
• Evaluating therapeutic responses
Patient Medication Record
 Therapeutic response monitoring

• Checking CBG
• Blood Pressure recording
• Pulmonary function tests
• BMI calculation etc.,
 Drug utilization monitoring
• Pharmacist can participate in DUE studies
• Identify drug – drug interactions
• Monitor and report Adverse Drug Reactions
Extemporaneous Preparation

• Compounding
• Manufacturing
pharmaceutical
formulations in
small quantity
Traditional and alternative medicines

• Supply of
traditional or
alternative
medicines
 Information to
health care professionals

• New drugs
Information to patients

• Medication usage
instructions

• Information leaflets
etc.,
 Health Promotion
• Rational use of drugs
• Alcohol abuse
• Tobacco use
• Discouragement of drug use in Pregnancy
• Organic solvent abuse
• Poison prevention
• Diarrheal disease
• AIDS
• Family planning
• Head Lice
• Menstrual
disorders
• Immunization
program
• Malaria
• Malaria
• Tuberculosis
Domiciliary services

• Drug supply to
residential
homes
• HMR